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Creamery Closure Likely
An NFU Scotland delegation was on the Isle of Bute on Monday, 22 March meeting with the island’s dairy farmers in
reaction to the bombshell announcement that the local creamery is likely to close.
SAC team up with M&S
SAC consultants and researchers will provide advice and insight on the latest developments in
livestock production and breeding. They will help progress the efforts M&S...
Superb Young Farmers Contest
Taking the overall championship at the ANM, LedinghamChalmers sponsored Young Farmers’ Overwintering Contest, and beating a large and strong entry, was Balfour Baillie
of Sebay Cottage, Tankerness, Orkney.
| 23 Mar 2010 - Beef | ... read full article |
Golden Girl
Scottish female sheep shearer Una Cameron of St Boswells has shorn herway into the history books by becoming the first woman ever to make the Top 30 in the Open heats of the New Zealand
Golden Shears.
| 15 Mar 2010 - Sheep | ... read full article |
4000gns for Lurg
Newly weds, Ewen and Louise MacMillan, Lurg, Fintry, madehistory at Lanark recently, selling a Blackface 2 crop ewe to 4000gns.
| 12 Mar 2010 - Auction Action | ... read full article |
Sometimes – No Plan is the Best Plan
Easy care is a term that we all hear regularlythese days and to those of us who grew up with shepherds and stocksmen on the farm it was something which, if there
were sufficient staff, was an unnecessary concern. Now, it means a way to manage a profitable enterprise with fewer
members of staff, thus still allowing time for “other things” which are more important.
| 12 Mar 2010 - Sheep | ... read full article |
Herefords, Highlanders & Blondes
With debate and chat about The Pack Report, presentlynot far from every farmer’s lips, Bruce Dixon, who farms 1300 acres just north of Lochgilphead, feels that the
Single Farm Payment should be rebased on 2009.
| 12 Mar 2010 - Beef | ... read full article |
New Suzuki King Quad 400 – Now with Fuel Injection
Suzuki's popular middleweightATV, the KingQuad 400, has been updated for 2010 with the addition of fuel injection, providing even more efficient
performance from an already highly economical ATV.
| 11 Mar 2010 - Machinery | ... read full article |
Soft Fruit Production
The combined output from the raspberry, strawberry, broccoliand cauliflower growers is now almost on a par with the total output from the Scottish sheep industry or the
dairy sector.
| 11 Mar 2010 - Arable | ... read full article |
Grassland Turnout
A report from the Grassland meeting at South Mains, Sanquhar,Dumfriesshire, run by Rhidian Jones, SAC.
| 11 Mar 2010 - Beef | ... read full article |
Smith’s Shearing Success
Far North, New Zealand shearer Matthew Smith launchedhimself into the records book with a near perfect effort as he smashed the World eight-hour ewe shearing record
northwest of Napier.
| 13 Feb 2010 - Sheep | ... read full article |
Buchan Beef
Beef cattle is the main enterprise on the two almost neighbouringAberdeenshire farms, which host the Quality Meat Scotland Monitor Farm meetings for the Buchan region.
| 13 Feb 2010 - Monitor Farm | ... read full article |
